Yoshihiro Nagamine

Yoshihiro Nagamine (5 October 1902-29 May 1945) was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

Biography
Yoshihiro Nagamine was born on 5 October 1902 in Niigata Prefecture of Japan, and he graduated from a military academy in 1926. He served as an officer in the Second Sino-Japanese War and in 1945 he was sent to defend the island of Okinawa from the United States during World War II. However, Nagamine was gunned down in a vicious battle at the west gate to Shuri Castle in the batlte of Okinawa on 29 May 1945.